ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has ordered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pay 10,000 Turkish Lira ($4,000) in compensation to an artist for calling his sculpture — meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia — a “monstrosity.”
Erdogan expressed his dislike in 2011 of Mehmet Aksoy’s giant “Monument to Humanity,” which was being erected in the eastern city of Kars, prompting local authorities there to dismantle it. Aksoy then sued Erdogan for “insult.”
Anadolu Agency said the court ordered Erdogan to compensate Aksoy for the mental anguish caused.
